Thursday, June 10, 2010

"Notes from a Bottle"

1. What structural elements in the text tell you these notes are a kind of diary?
2. What device does Stevenson use to frame the entire story?
3. What reason does the writer give for the lack of phones and other devices?
4. What item in the story gets moved from the fourth floor to the sixth floor?
5. Langford probably moves to the tallest TV antenna because...
6. What is ambiguous about the way the flood is dealt with?
7. Who moves into the Wenker's apartment?
8. The reasons for the celebration at the beginning of the story is ambiguous. What mood does this create?
9. What is the biggest prank played in the story?
10. Wy do people probably slip out of the anrrator's apartment during the party?

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